Chapter Ten – Cool, Black
The boys gather in Geoff's cabin at four o'clock while the girls are still swimming in the lake.
"Okay, let's see what we've got!" Duncan announces. "Owen was first," Owen holds up Izzy's green thong then throws it to the floor in the middle of the room. "Geoff?" Geoff contributes Bridgette's blue cotton underwear to the pile. "Trent?" Trent throws a pair of Gwen's black panties onto the pile.
"Cool, black," Owen giggles.
"Everything Gwen wears is black," Trent points out.
"Cody?" Duncan continues down his list. A pair of frilly yellow undies are thrown on the pile. "Well done Cody! Didn't think you had it in you!" Duncan laughs.
"Tyler, Zeke, Justin?" Duncan resumes.
"Aw man, I totally forgot!" Tyler says. He then starts searching through his own bag. Meanwhile Zeke throws a pair of shorts onto the pile and Justin throws a pair of panties with cats on them.
"Zeke, we said underwear, not shorts!" Duncan sighs. Zeke gulps.
"It turns out Eva doesn't wear underwear…" he shudders. The rest of the boys make noises of disgust.
"Ah-ha!" Tyler shouts triumphantly, pulling out a hot pink thong. "Lindsay always keeps spare underwear in my bag," he explains to the looks of confusion that appear on the other guys faces.
"Moving on… Alejandro? Harold?" Duncan says. Harold throws a large pair of underwear onto the pile. Alejandro shakes his head.
"Alas, I did not get Heather's underwear," he admits. Duncan tuts.
"You know what that means!" he says. Alejandro rolls his eyes but nods.
"And DJ and Noah?" Duncan finishes. The boys throw identical, although different sized, leopard print panties onto the pile.
"Well that's it! Alejandro is the only one who has to do the nudie run! I'm impressed." Duncan declares.
"What about you?" Trent asks.
"Oh, right." He pulls Courtney's underwear from his pocket and throws it onto the pile.
"That's Courtney's underwear?" Geoff asks, surprised.
"Yep!" Duncan smirks. "Let's get these tied to the flagpole!"
The guys pick up the pile and Duncan checks to see if the coast is clear. He sees Courtney walking back to her cabin, dripping wet, with a towel wrapped around her. He ignores the ache in his chest and the butterflies in his stomach and gives her his usual smirk. She regards him with suspicion but doesn't say anything as she enters her cabin.
"Okay, quick guys, we don't have much time!" he waves the guys out and they run to the flagpole. Duncan follows them over and watches as they efficiently tie each pair to the rope and hoist them up. As the last pair is raised a shrill voice rings out through the camp.
"DUNCAN!" Courtney screeches, storming out of her cabin in her bikini, the door slamming behind her. She spots the guys over by the flagpole and it doesn't take her long to see the line of underwear flapping in the breeze. Sierra follows Courtney out of the cabin. Duncan grins smugly as Courtney marches towards him. The other girls are appearing from the lake and they stop when they see the situation, most of them looking quite peeved to find their underwear hanging on the flagpole.
"What the fuck, Duncan?" Courtney yells as she gets closer to him. The other guys scatter nervously.
"Language, princess," Duncan smirks.
"You are a total pervert, you disgusting, vile ogre!" she rages, pushing him in the chest, making him stagger backwards.
"Whoa, calm down, psycho! It's just a joke!" Duncan laughs nervously.
"Well it isn't FUNNY!" Courtney punches Duncan in the nose and gives him another shove, this time sending him to the ground. She dives on him, straddling him and hitting him with her fists.
"Argh!" Duncan cries, trying to shield himself with his hands. He considers for a moment that he probably shouldn't be aroused by this, but somehow he finds having Courtney on top of him, wearing a damp bikini, freaking hot, whether or not she's attacking him.
It isn't long before Courtney is dragged away by Chef, still swinging her arms.
"Let me go!" she demands, struggling against Chef. Duncan is glad it's Chef and not one of the other adults because he's certain she could overpower both Blaineley and Chris. Finally Courtney stops struggling and just glowers at Duncan. Owen helps Duncan up and he brushes himself off, wincing as he feels the pain from Courtney's blows.
"I told you, this was your last chance!" Blaineley says, walking up and standing by Chef. "Somebody get that underwear down!" she demands. Harold quickly lowers the rope and hands the girls underwear back. Courtney snatches hers back quite viciously and Harold scampers away.
"Chef, what punishment do you suggest for Duncan?" Blaineley asks.
"I'd say these two need a night in the fish cabin!" Chef chuckles.
"These two?" Courtney shrieks. "You don't mean me?" she says incredulously.
"Yes, both of you! I'll lock you in there after dinner. Then maybe you'll learn to get along with each other!" Chef lets Courtney go and marches away, followed by Blaineley. Courtney shoots daggers at Duncan as she stalks back to her cabin. The other girls don't exactly look pleased either as they head to their respective cabins.
"I think we're in trouble, man" Geoff whispers.
It's obvious at dinner that the guys are indeed in trouble, and it seems like the only girls who don't care are Lindsay who has forgotten what happened, Izzy who thinks it's funny and Heather, whose underwear didn't get taken.
"Get over it, it's just underwear!" Heather scoffs as Gwen refuses to talk to Trent. Gwen glares at her.
At the other table Courtney glowers across the table at Duncan. The fact that she's being forced to spend the night in the fish cabin with him has only served to make her angrier.
"Come on, Bridge, it was Duncan's idea! It was just meant to be a joke!" Geoff pleads. He can hardly believe he's screwed it up with Bridgette already, and all because of Duncan's lame prank, which didn't turn out to be that funny anyway. Bridgette ignores Geoff and turns to talk to Eva.
"Eva, remember that time we beat up Ezekiel?" Bridgette says loudly. Geoff gulps and Ezekiel hides under the table.
"Bridge, come on! You knew I had it, what's the big deal?" Geoff pleads. Bridgette turns to him and leans in so no one else can hear what she's saying.
"I thought you had it because it turned you on to think of me not wearing underwear, not because you were going to show it to all your friends!" she whispers acidly.
"Well, yeah there was that too. But Duncan…" Geoff starts.
"Don't even get me started on Duncan! If Courtney hadn't already beaten him up, I'd be happy to do it myself. I know he was the mastermind behind this whole thing," she says. "Thanks, Courtney, by the way. All is forgiven for what you said yesterday."
"No problem, Bridgette. I hope you know I really do consider us friends," Courtney responds, still glowering at Duncan.
"Me too!" agrees Sierra, shooting a dirty look across the room at Cody.
"Great, we made them like each other," Duncan sighs.
Okay sorry this chapter is so short but I needed to break it up from the next part so I'll post that tomorrow! Hope everyone had a lovely weekend!